From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-10-08T21:53:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Can ruby replace c?

Mitch <idylls@gmail.com> writes:

> Which D language?
>
> The improvement to c++?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_programming_language
>
> Or Sun's (very useful right now) dtrace language also called D?
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-6223
>
> I am starting to wonder what languages will look like when we hit the
> Z programming language.

http://www.zuser.org/z/

> Theoretically it is all over then, I mean we
> are out of letters unless we start using Greek or Russian or Japanese
> characters.

I think I've seen a language called "ya" already, which would be a
cyrillic letter...

> Although would you really want to program in the beta language? Or
> alpha for that matter?

Beta isn't that bad, but I prefer the Smalltalk-OO,
http://www.daimi.au.dk/~beta/

Alpha sounds more like assembler to me. ;-)

I guess we really need to switch over to spy-related themes for naming
programming languages. :-)

> Mitch
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